The NYPD closed its Demographics Unit, subsequently known as the Zone Assessment Unit, which had mapped Muslim communities. Civil liberties advocates welcomed the closure while warning that it did not end every form of discriminatory surveillance. The change was a concrete institutional retreat following exposure and litigation, with important limits on what had actually been dismantled.
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Closing the mapping unit was an institutional change. Advocates nevertheless stressed that other surveillance practices and the need for safeguards remained.
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